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Depc-.  .  sad  ^.  t.  Hoverstad,  Assistant  Ln  Farm 

Lnnesi. 

ilts   nf  a    summary   of  the    cost    or  value   of  tho  goods  us«d 
•33  as  reported   in  farm  manage:  *   '  • 

rmesota,   ate  given    in  this  preliminary 
report.    [l_.      The  data  were   tabulated  to   shew  as   clearly  as   possible 

::come  and  the  costs  or  values  cf 
the  inds   of  foods   recorded   in  the  accounts  as  used  for 

eposes  during  the  year  era  ecember  31,    1925. 

ag  to  their  omission   from  the   records  v.': ich  v.ero  kept, 
data  on  ihe  value  rouuee   (excluding  potatoes)    and  fruits 

tne  farm  orae  use  were   obtained  as   estimates   of  the 

^e   fo-»ds  usee  curing  the  year.      During  1926  a   list    of 
■  .its   cc.rjnonly   grown   in   the   locality  was    clocked 

h  etch  of   20   to   25   families   to   determine   the 
odities  used.     Ihe  average  value  of  Q  pro- 

•.ained   in   this  way,  £37   per   family  for  20   families, 
was  led  as   typical   or   representative   for   the  25   families. 

v,   Minnesota,   is  maintained  jointly  by  the 

.;t,   University  of  Minnesota  and  the  Division 
ad  Cost 8,  Bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics,  United 
-t   of  Agriculture.     The  farmers  who   cooperated  in  this 
mplete   records   of  all   cash   receipts  and  expenses,    in- 
clu  .    ■  -  Id  and  personal,   of  labor  used  on  dl 

-    :  and   1  f  amounts   of   feed   fed  to   livestock,    c 

farm  produce  used  in  the   farm  borne,    etc.      Copies  of  thosu  rocords  we- 
mad-v  ationed  at   „skov,   who  visited  earn   farm  usually 

twi  :od  this  material  to   tho  Section  of  len- 

ient a-.  .innesota   for  tabulation.     All  the  material 

bablo  omissions  and  possible   inaocur 

the   farm  business  wore  cbtained 
;dy  as                .cal   end   two   because   n  ' 
.■mily    I            ■  purposes.      All   th              res 
.•sent    b                   for  the   25    farms,    or   farm   fa           •", 
oecified. 


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''ov   Is  th  if  o  r  colony.      It    is  e   smell  v  in 

Pt   of  Pino  Oc  .    Jinnu:    bi  .      This   ccunty   is   situated  »n 

tho  o&stera  cdgo  of  tho  approxlmstol  .stmt    frcm  tho  sc. 

i  tho  horn   :  ov    is  on  tno  mein  lino  of  tho 

•n  Duluth,  et   the  ^ostorn  tip  of  Le-ko  Su- 
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i0  liii:  Lnos  I  .      Jho   so'-  rowth 

3  uncloerjd   consi.  -y  of  pof - 

fCh  end  o*  -oos.     Tho  pino  stumps   thct 

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xplos  the  lend   i5  cloerod.     The  lend   in  tho 

.    >ov  is  rmist   be  roracvod  boforo  tho 

1    La   rod  cley   1  th  somo  petit   soil  v;horo 

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if   lend,    the   committee  docido  Is 

ch   is  no*  the  jiskov  community.  >on- 

*t   on  :  .    -jor  compenies  et   i    norcinel  price.     This 

.    rcolled  :.   smell   trects   cf   fort  acres  to 

"tlors  Lt  t   ■  ble  pricy.     Eg  en  b   ro- 

quired  to  cloir   fivo  tcr  job  months  tftur  purchssing  to 

.-  ?d. 

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sot  tiers,  f ran  Don         . 

bo  .CI  -.tly  on  lend   from  vhich 

the  brush  his  ^  L,   end   is  tho  besic  crcp   in   I 

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